Citing Space Constraints, Obama Campaign Kicks Off the Plane Reporters from Newspapers Whose Coverage it Doesn't Like

It's nice to see Obama working so hard to bring "unity" to the country already like he claims he wants to so badly. What a steaming pile of b.s.

Rev. Ike:

If we have Obama’s socialism we will all have depression. Clinical Depression!

Drill Baby Drill

So you think Fox news has real reporters

I would rather have Socialism than Depression

they said Essence & Jet magazine were getting spots on the plane instead of 'real reporters'. What's up with that? They're monthly magazines not real reporters from daily papers!? the more we hear about the Obama thugs & his arrogant campaign, it makes me sick!

Hey ML --
No real evidence of a bad temper here.
Just a protective parent! For the most part, the Obama family has kept their children out of the spotlight. I think it quite natural and a good thing for Obama to ask the reporters to step back and even to ask that again with some firmess when the first request was not honored. Obama's daughters are not candidates and deserve to live their family life without the intrusion of the press.

Obama seems to have a very bad temper.. he gets annoyed very easily. Funny when you look close at Obama you tend to see a facade.. a lie. He acts so cool and even tempered but unfortunately it's just that.. an act. Just read an article about him getting angry at reporters in Chicago following him around. Reminds me of a dr. jekyll and mr. hyde.

I would love to stay and debate our needs here all night but I must travel for some well-earned time off. I hope to meet each of you soon in these spaces and wish each of you the best of luck in our quest to bring our country back to what we all wish for. Ado...

Moderate: As one moderate to another, we call them where we see them and I don't see that much difference between what you point your finger at me with VS what you yourself seem to have replicated in such a wonderful fashion. I commend you for your attempt to tackle someone not unlike yourself other than that we sit on the opposite sides of the fence. I am pleased that you took the time to read my posts and I try to read yours too. It is too bad that my hearts-and-flowers post is not something you seem to agree with on it's merits alone. And, it is your choice, as it is for all Americans to agree or disagree with others. I am not a reporter or journalist by trade and I assume you are not either but am terribly interested in this election because of how important it is for this country to get off in the ride direction with the right leadership for the coming times. Brash statements of untruths and fabricated distortions do not hold well with me and I will call for facts and proof that they be backed up and then discussed on the merits of the interpretations of that information. It is not and should not be any different than what yourself should hold to. I am not a perfect debater and make my mistakes or am not aware of all new information that can occur even upon the hour. But, I will do my best to decipher that which I do encounter. I will not float down to your level and attempt to compare you negatively but give you the benefit of the doubt until I see that you are purposely or destructively harming our rights to be the Americans that we all need to be here. Respect needs to be earned but than abuse of the respect given is worse. Give both of our candidates the respect they deserve and stick to the real issues at hand. I sincerely believe that if McCain had followed that trail, he would be much closer to Obama then he is at this time.

Common Sense-- I want to agree with one point you made in your post while disagreeing with your overall message that ACORN is a benign organization that should be celebrated rather than reviled. I agree that it is not always a simple case of voter registration fraud when a community winds up with more registered voters than there are people-- but not for the reason you suggest. Yes, most of these cities have a pretty good idea of how many people live there and are not simply dependent on the last census for that information. But what happens in many cases is that registrars are lax about purging their rolls-- they have not regularly removed the names of people who have died or moved away. So when new registrations come in, the total can go higher than the population. Of course, whenever a Republican mentions purging voting rolls, Democrats get the vapors and start muttering about voter intimidation and suppression.

I like the idea that a poster I haven't seen around lately has mentioned-- he's from Australia and in Australia, registration is done automatically by the government upon a young person reaching the voting age. The government then keeps track of where you should be registered and keeps the roll. There's no partisan registration hijinx in either direction-- adding people not truly eligible or purging people who are.

But I am seriously concerned by your suggestion that we should appreciate ACORN. Their "community activism," from mortgage agitation to voter registration, has been a joke. They are shakedown artists on a par with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson back in the day. There are many groups who do voter registration drives in a truly nonpartisan and appropriate way-- like the League of Women Voters. Those I support and applaud. ACORN? No thanks.

dlbloggan, you have been studying at the feet of the master, Sen. Obama, haven't you? You get your punches in down the page, claiming McCain is an puppet with a temper, parroting Obama/Biden's tiresome suggestions that McCain is a clone of Bush, etc. You speak derisively of other posters, suggesting that anyone who disagrees with your point of view has been brainwashed by a cabal of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and some nut named Savage. All the while you purr that you are being, by contrast, reasonable, rational, and enlightened. Heaven forfend that someone accuse you of being a creature of Daily Kos, MSNBC, and Air America. (And, no, I am not making that accusation in a backhanded way. I do not think you get your marching orders from them, but I would appreciate you giving the same benefit of the doubt to good posters like A Veteran and S Adams on the other side of the political spectrum.) Then you top off the evening with a hearts-and-flowers call to unity and peace and love, which you tell us only Obama can bring about. Sorry, I'm not buying what you are peddling. SOmetimes you make well-reasoned arguments, sometimes you just accuse others of not having their facts straight or of mistaking opinion for fact, even though you do the same thing on a regular basis. You want to come across as above it all, too refined to lower yourself to the level of the uncouth philistines who do not share your views-- a nifty piece of jujitsu that is really merely an elevated form of PeeWee Hermanesque "I know you are but what am I?"

Oh, and for the record, I don't listen to talk radio. I get my news from a variety of sources including CSPAN, CNN, Wall Street Journal, 2 local newspapers, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, and, yes, Fox News. BTW, Fox News has two distinct parts, as does CNN and MSNBC. There are the straight newscasts, which I find as "fair and balanced" as anything on television, anad then there are the opinion shows, which are anything but balanced, but make no pretense of being. O'Reilly is an opinion show, just like Hardball or Lou Dobbs or any other. It's like the distinction between the editorial page and the reporting on most newspapers.

"Bryan T All of our money supports Acorn. They get federal funds given to them and I don't want that. May I suggest we all stop giving to non profits and tell them in light of Acorn this election"

In light of Acorn this election??? The whole issue is one of attempted voter suppression by the republicans. They've been after any and all organizations that try to help people.

I hear the latest republican fiasco is to claim that there are more registered voters than there are eligible voters in certain jurisdictions. I've yet to hear a single person ask "based on what statistics can this charge be made?" Did I miss a taxpayer paid census last year or this year? How do they know how many people have moved to their area -- especially considering so many people have moved to find jobs?

Give me a break! Acorn was defrauded by a few people who obviously NEEDED JOBS TO SURVIVE. That doesn't excuse what they did, but don't paint Acorn as the bad guy. That would be like holding every republican at McCain/Palin conventions for "Joe the Plumbers" lack of compunction to abide by the law regarind paying his taxes.

I'm very pleased with Acorn's community activism and encouragement to all citizens to participate in this country. Get a grip!

Obama/Biden 08!

Here is my response to those businesses threatening to pass on higher taxes to the customers and laying off employees to maintain their profits.
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Dear Business owner,
 I am your competition down the road and will be taking on the employees that you no longer need.  I have seen a increase in my clients because I have chosen to not raise my prices and I need additional people with all the new work.  Some of these new clients used to be parked in front of your location.  A lot of clients have better jobs now and also have much higher spending power due to the reduced taxes .   I really appreciate your older Bush league business practices and hope that you continue with your policies.  I wish you the best under our new Obama administration and Democrat run government.  By the way, I paid a lot less taxes recently as my profits were under the $250,000.   But, of course, if profits do go above that mark, I will be glad to pay the extra 3% as it will be useful for the new health programs for my employees, help pay off the HUGE debt brought to us by the Bush administration, and help create more business opportunities for me with the new Green technologies.  I am also going to be using some of that new Green technology to lower my business expenses. Buying this new technology will help the economy because of my demand for it and create even more jobs in that sector and then again provide more customers for my products who can now afford to buy my products at my lower prices compared to your higher prices.   Again good luck with your business.  I hope you will be OK with those older Reaganomics business practices that McCain was promising to uphold for you. They never did work, did they. Trickle-down economics proved impossible to achieve just like communism in its day. Very Respectfully, Your competition.

S Adams : Let's discuss the concepts of defending truth versus defend falsehoods or distortions. Defend truth requires little as the truth stands before you and can stand on its own merits. Problems occur when the listener, that is you, "chooses" not to believe that information, no matter how it is presented. A prejudice against the truth due to an agenda for something otherwise become a brick wall in real resolution. Falsehoods or distortions are made up in the mind of the ones trying to create them and will present it as truth without real facts or information to support. This is not that hard to disprove and argue against because it would not and cannot stand up in a court of law or fool those that have the education or experience to see it for what it really is. Now, in Obama's case, there is much truth but many non-believers who on a regular basis like to use falsehoods and distortions to fool the rest of us out here. It usually falls down when the truth can easily be seen or the falsehood is easily proven by the truth that surrounds it. So, the basic concepts of real journalist do call for multiple sources of proof with facts. Not just any source that can use falsehoods and distortions or are the talking heads of the talking points of these falsehoods but truly non-biased sources that most sides can agree upon. Good luck with your definitions of truth. I hope you move further in that direction. Obama has done well against the falsehoods and distortions of his person as he does represent the truth that we all need to have. Including you.

For those "bleeding hearts" who argue how letting Bush tax rate reduction for the few will have bad effect on our economy and all the people who will have lower taxes under Obama, could I point out that instead of referencing academic studies of dubious quality by economist of dubious intellectual ability and easy recognized ideology, one need just look at economy in Clinton years, with exactly the tax rate Obama proposes, with the state of today's economy, which presumably benefited all by benefiting from the Bush-McCain's tax break for the rich.

By the way, I wish 250K is adjusted for cost of living, as in New York this is not rich by any means, however, I have to see somebody who will pack his things and go fishing because he can't keep 4.6% of the money he earns above 250K.

Veteran: Being a $50K kind of guy, you are one of the lucky ones to be able to experience some relief with an Obama and Democrat agenda. I can understand your focus on the war issue as a majority of Americans have done over the past many years since 911. I will not attempt to berate your hard work with your business and your veteran status. I will define to you that I too have had my history in the same areas as yourself but still find myself leaning heavily towards Obama. He truly does have a cool head when under pressure and works very hard to stay with his message. His 30 minute Infomercial was inspiring and believable. He has proven, very well, his ability to lead and gather together huge numbers of people to bring his message to the nation. He tries his best to follow-through with his words by his actions and focuses on those things that are foremost in the American Publics needs. You see, it's not just the message, or the experience that counts here, but the making of the man and his abilities to bring so many together that may have differences but help us all to find the common ground necessary to bring our nation back from it's present debacle. He is a "uniter" not a "divider". We need to be united over the next many years to recover and move forward to a better America. Greater than it has ever been. But, we need to heal, first, and that cannot be done under the present atmosphere that divides those like you and me. I am sure that we could find much in common and that is what is truly important here. Let us all work towards that common good and those common solutions that I know most of us can agree upon. Than move onto the next issue and again move forward. Let us all become part of the solution and not part of the problem. No more name-calling, no more false hoods, truth is power and a beautiful thing to behold when it is used appropriately and constructively. You can vote McCain but I doubt greatly he can win at this point, but no matter who wins here, lets do our best to Unite not divide. I wish you the best and hope for the best for us all.

>>>moderate | Oct 31, 2008 7:11:40 PM
EXACTLY!

And all this information has been requested before!

Why all this secrecy about the man they want to lead our beloved country?

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?????

WE NEED TO KNOW!

A Veteran: I did not see McCain attempting to have a moderators in front of him from any strong progressives, for instance Air America, etc. And our point still is?

bah
Like I said, no comment on Obama Oldinga. No comment on Clinton backing on the decision for war. NO comment on Clinton intelligence on Iraq. I hope you are man enough to be able to admit you were wrong when the truth shows itself after he is elected. I have always paid taxes. I can ride out the next 4 - 12 years since I worked for and own everything I have. Did it on less than 50,000 for the total household income.